If you look up “dog days of summer,” you might be surprised to find that it has a technical definition. It’s the period of the summer during which the star Sirius rises around the same time that the sun does, which roughly corresponds with the month of July and the first third of August. I was familiar only with the more colloquial meaning of the term, which is: the time of year when most people stop working and fuck off to the beach because it’s too hot to think. This atmospherically mandated relaxation period is typically a great time for listening to metal — few sounds pair with muggy evenings, open windows, grilling foodstuffs, and general benign laziness...
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